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Military and Government E-mails Compromised

Posted by Soulskill on from the neverending-story dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that 16,959 e-mail accounts were recently exposed by Connexion Hack Team. Included in the data dump are usernames and passwords for military and government accounts. The other compromised accounts included addresses from GMail, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL." Reader Stoobalou adds a report that NATO's servers have been hit for the second time in as many months.

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  1. Air Gap? by Gothmolly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has nobody in government security ever heard of an air gap? WHY would you ever attach military gear to the public Internet?

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  2. Re:Going to throw stones? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fact that you somehow got modded up horrifies me. There is a world of difference between the two scenarios, perhaps somebody will patiently explain them to you...maybe with bright colors and friendly animals!

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  3. Re:Going to throw stones? by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, government data is (nominally) public property and should be owned by and available to the public at large, with only certain exceptions, usually in a time of war. Fucking around the the voice mail account of a missing, underage girl who may or may not have been murdered, is a little bit different than that, don't you think? But hey, context, what's that?

  4. Not compromised, not hacked by jmkaza · · Score: 3, Informative

    These aren't email addresses with passwords to those accounts, they're the email address and password someone used to sign up for some random, unknown website. Without knowing what website, most of these combos are worthless. It might have been a hack of the server, but chances are it's just some DB (and not DataBase) admin who published his user list. If you're using the same email address to register for websites, make sure you don't use your password for that email address when you register.